As the attorney representing Kim Kardashian in her divorce from Kanye West, the already prominent Wasser is among America’s best-known celebrity divorce lawyers.
She won’t, of course, discuss the famous pair. “I generally don’t talk about my cases … because it’s generally so personal and such a difficult time” for the clients, she said. Kardashian West v. West, 21STFL01626 (L.A. Super. Ct., filed Feb. 19, 2021)
Other current clients are Dr. Dre, Kelly Clarkson and an international tennis champion from Belarus. About those three she said, “I can verify those are all cases in which I’m involved.
“I don’t like to talk about them because my hope is they all slide under the radar — even though they haven’t thus far — by virtue of settlement and without too much media attention.”
She and her firm also take on pro bono cases from the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law and other legal assistance organizations. Wasser does some training and fundraising for the Buhai Center and serves on its advisory council.
Her famous clients’ sensitivities underly her general approach to her practice. “I really do think that as a family law practitioner that my job is to be the voice of reason and a problem solver,” Wasser said.
She has been impressed by the way the pandemic brought changes to the courts and to family law litigation. “It really forced a lot of people to move into mediation, which I thought was very interesting,” she said.
The pandemic also seemed to propel more people to use Wasser’s online DIY divorce platform, ItsOverEasy.com, which she launched in 2018.
But Wasser would like to see more changes. “First of all, I would make it much simpler to fill out the necessary forms,” she said. “It seems like every year or two we get new forms … that are extremely complicated, even for somebody who went to law school.”
She also wants more education to help people understand divorce, its emotional impacts and how to thrive afterwards.
Perhaps, Wasser said, the pandemic will further increase the use of mediation, alternate judicial officers and online resources to accelerate what she calls the “evolution of dissolution.”
“I hope … [it] moves us toward changing the way we approach family law. I think [it would be] much healthier for families & children.”
— Don DeBenedictis
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